Autopilots – The Era of Ambient consulting

With Autopilots, you can take any process you’ve built or selected in FifthRow – from a complex market intelligence workflow to a regulatory monitoring setup – and set it to run automatically. Each cycle, your inputs are applied, your autonomous team does the heavy lifting, and the output arrives in your inbox, complete with sources and a ready-to-share PDF.

It’s the closest thing to having a team of consultants working quietly in the background – an ambient consulting layer that’s always on, always accurate, and always in your preferred format.

Why We Built Autopilots

When we asked customers what they wanted from recurring runs, the answer was consistent:

• Less manual intervention – Set once, get insights on schedule.
• Faster decision cycles – Have fresh intelligence waiting before your next meeting.
• Consistent quality – Maintain the same structure, sources, and standards every time.

From market intelligence teams tracking competitors and emerging trends to innovation groups automating internal newsletters, the demand was the same – give us a way to run workflows automatically and deliver results where our teams already work.

What You Can Do with Autopilots

Market Intelligence & Regulatory Monitoring

• Monitor specific companies or markets.
• Track regulations by region or industry.
• Get trend reports in your inbox at the start of the week.

Automated Newsletters & Insight Reports

• Turn your research into always-on content engines.
• Compile the latest industry updates.
• Generate periodic reports for executives and stakeholders.
• Ensure every edition is timely, consistent, and data-backed.

Investment & Opportunity Scouting

• Have your next move queued up before the competition.
• Surface emerging companies or technologies in your target space.
• Track funding rounds, partnerships, or leadership changes.
• Get structured profiles ready for quick evaluation and follow-up.

Built for How You Work

Autopilots were designed directly from customer requests:

• Flexible Scheduling – Daily including specific days, weekly, monthly...
• Structured Outputs – Clear, shareable formats with full source traceability.
• Seamless Delivery – Email notifications now, Microsoft Teams integration coming soon.
• Customization – Adjust prompts, time frames, and templates for recurring runs.

Your Always-On Consulting Layer

Think of Autopilots as a standing team of analysts, strategists, and researchers who:

• Run your playbooks automatically.
• Deliver in your preferred format.
• Never lose context, never miss a deadline.

Instead of scrambling for updates or burning hours on manual work, your team can focus on decisions, strategy, and action – while your ambient consultants keep the insights flowing.

Autopilots are the scheduling layer of a wider model, set out in what an agentic consultancy is: people own the outcome, agents make the work continuous, and knowledge compounds. To tell whether a scheduled report pays off, measure one edition by hand before you automate it; our post on how to measure the ROI of AI consulting shows what to record.

Get Started Today

Turning a flow into an Autopilot 30s:

1. Open your chosen flow or app.
2. Set your run frequency and parameters.
3. Confirm delivery.

From there, it just runs – deep, structured, and on time.